[syslog-ng] Backslash before quote

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:04 +0100, Pennington, Philip wrote:
> Syslog-ng version 2.
> 
> Can anyone please explain the purpose of the backslash being added
> before each quote in syslog output ?
> 
> Is there any way to disable this feature ?   Is this
> flags(noparse) ?   
> 
> Is there any other way to do it (other than stripping it out on an
> output process)?
> 

you probably need template-escape(no)

this is the default setting starting from 3.0 and was introduced to
avoid SQL injections if using templates to format SQL INSERT statements.

since that use is replaced by the native SQL destination, the default
was changed with 3.0.

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Bazsi